CNCC2024 Forum: Industry‑Academia Collaboration for Scientific Exploration and the CCF‑Ant Research Fund Release

The CNCC2024 forum, titled "Industry‑Academia Integration Boosts Scientific Exploration and CCF‑Ant Research Fund Release," took place on October 24 (13:30‑17:30) at the Summer Garden Conference Room 2. It emphasized the importance of technology as a productive force, the Ant Group’s open‑source principles, and the establishment of an open research innovation system that deepens external scientific collaboration.

Keynote speakers and panelists were introduced, including:

Cao Kai – General Manager of Ant Group’s Technology Strategy and Execution Department.

Yang Shi‑qiang – Professor at Tsinghua University, CCF Fellow and Chairman.

Jiang (unspecified) – Executive Director of the China Image and Graphics Society, multimedia technology expert.

Jiang (unspecified) – Deputy Dean of Shandong University’s School of Cybersecurity.

Wang Xin – Associate Researcher at Tsinghua University, National Excellent Young Scientist Fund recipient.

Gao Xiao‑peng – Professor at Shanghai Jiao‑Tong University, expert in data engineering.

Bu Jia‑jun – CCF Fellow, Zhejiang University professor.

Li Hui – AFAC Competition Executive Committee Chair, Ant Group Wealth Insurance Project Management Director.

Liu Hong‑xia – Head of Alipay Open Platform Operations, Alipay Developer Competition Lead.

Selected talk titles and abstracts include:

"School‑Enterprise Cooperation Leads Technology and Talent Creation" – Discusses how university‑industry collaboration drives technological breakthroughs and talent cultivation, highlighting Ant Group’s joint labs and the CCF‑Ant Research Fund.

"Shandong University‑Ant Group Industry‑Academia Collaboration Model and Achievements" – Presents outcomes of the joint privacy‑computing research center, covering advanced cryptography, acceleration systems, and joint education initiatives.

"Graph Intelligence Research and Industrial Applications" – Introduces Out‑of‑Distribution Generalized Graph Machine Learning for open‑environment scenarios, covering concepts, challenges, progress, and future directions.

"Elastic Scheduling for Green Computing" – Shares two years of research on elastic scheduling in cloud services, focusing on serverless architectures, predictive analysis, and resource efficiency for sustainable data‑center operations.

"Alipay Developer Competition: A New Paradigm for Industry‑Academia Fusion" – Explores how the competition bridges academia and industry, fostering AI‑driven product innovation and talent development.

The forum concluded with a summary of the CNCC2024 event, noting that the conference runs from October 24‑26 in Dongyang, Hangzhou, featuring 18 invited talks, 3 plenary forums, 138 specialized forums, over 800 speakers, and more than 10,000 expected attendees.